Joe Biden has backed Israel’s account of the deadly blast at a Gaza hospital, saying that the “other team” were behind the explosion as he visited Tel Aviv.
The US president said he was “deeply saddened and outraged” by the explosion and that “based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you, but there’s a lot of people out there not sure so... we’ve got to overcome a lot of things.” The vague language was toughed up later in the day after questions from the media, with Mr Biden saying that his comments backing the Israeli military’s assertion that militants in Gaza were responsible for the attack were based on “data from my Defence Department”. During a final speech before heading back to Washington, the president said that “it appears the result of an errant rocket fired by a terrorist group in Gaza”.
